NBC Sports Group Garners 33 Sports Emmy Award Nominations

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NEW YORK – March 20, 2012 – The NBC Sports Group received 33 total Sports Emmy Award nominations for 2011, the first year it produced programming as a single sports media company. The 33 nominations received by NBC Sports Group is the second-highest number of nominations for any sports media company or network. NBC led all broadcast networks with 23 nominations. The announcement was made today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The winners will be announced by the Academy on Monday, April 30.

Highlights of NBC Sports Group’s nominations include:

· Once again, Sunday Night Football on NBC was nominated for Outstanding Live Sports Series.

· Football Night in America was nominated for the second consecutive year for Outstanding Studio Show – Weekly.

· NBC’s NFLWild Card Saturday received its first nomination for Outstanding Playoff Coverage.

· For the first time as a joint production team, NBC / VERSUS* was rewarded with a nomination for Outstanding Live Sports Special for the 2011 Stanley Cup Final.

· Golf Channel was nominated for Outstanding Live Event Turnaround for Inside the PGA Tour.

· The newly created show, NFL Turning Point, which debuted on VERSUS* in the fall of 2010, received the nomination for Outstanding Edited Sports Series / Anthology in its premiere season.

· NBCSports.com was again nominated for Outstanding New Approaches Sports Programming for its live stream platform, Sunday Night Football Extra.

· Along with co-writer Aaron Cohen, Bob Costas, a 22-time Emmy Award winner, who is again nominated for Outstanding Sports Personality, Studio Host, was nominated for the Dick Schaap Writing Award for his halftime essays on Sunday Night Football.

· Nominations in individual talent categories:

o Bob Costas (Studio Host)

o Al Michaels (Play-by-Play)

o Mike Emrick (Play-by-Play)

o Cris Collinsworth (Event Analyst)

o Mike Mayock (Event Analyst)

o Dan Patrick (Studio Host)

o Michele Tafoya (Reporter)

o Pierre McGuire (Reporter)

*VERSUS was rebranded NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012.

“I am incredibly proud that the NBC Sports Group has earned an impressive 33 nominations for the work done in our first year together as a company,” said Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBC Sports Group. “Aligning our assets to produce the highest-quality programming across our national broadcast, cable and digital platforms has clearly made a difference.”

All of the national platforms of NBC Sports Group — NBC Sports, VERSUS*, Golf Channel and NBCSports.com — received a nomination. Most notably, NBC, VERSUS* and NBCSports.com received 16 nominations related to NFL coverage, and NBC / VERSUS* received four nominations for its coverage of the NHL. Golf Channel earned two nominations and NBCSports.com was honored with one.